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APPLE'S NEW MACOS CONTROLS ARE THE FIRST OS-LEVEL MOVE SPECIFICALLY TARGETING AI AGENT RISKS

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Apple announced that macOS will require very explicit user action to grant Full Disk Access, citing the risk of autonomous AI agents holding a permission that bypasses per-app TCC controls. The change tightens consent rather than banning FDA, and follows a disputed report of Meta's Muse agent reading a user's Messages and a ChatGPT Mac app flaw found by Objective-See. No macOS version or ship date was given for a change that touches agents like ChatGPT, Claude for Mac, and OpenClaw, which commonly request FDA.